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By Adam Sege and Carlos Sadovi and Tribune reporters | February 9, 2014

Shootings on the Northwest, West and South sides have left one man dead and four people injured since Saturday evening, according to police. About 5:10 this morning, a 44-year-old man was shot in the chest in the 4500 block of West Monroe Street, police said. He died on the scene. It appeared the man had been sitting in a Toyota Scion when he was shot. His body remained inside the vehicle as police took photographs and knocked on neighbors' doors this morning, and the driver's side window had been shattered.

By Hal Dardick and Kate Thayer and Tribune reporters | February 8, 2014

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley was released from Northwestern Memorial Hospital this afternoon where he was in the intensive care unit for more than a week after falling ill while at a seminar in Phoenix, Ariz. Daley walked out of the hospital shortly after noon dressed in a gray, wool overcoat and olive green hat. He was accompanied by family members and he waved before walking into a van driven by his daughter. He did not issue any comments to awaiting reporters. He underwent extensive testing to determine the cause of his illness, but more information about his hospital stay is not expected to be released until later this weekend, said Jacquelyn Heard, his longtime spokeswoman.

Former mayor Richard M. Daley will stay at Northwestern Memorial Hospital's intensive care unit at least through mid-week to undergo further testing after he fell ill Friday while on a business trip to Scottsdale, Ariz. Daley, 71, is alert and in good spirits, but doctors want to pin down the cause of his ailment before he leaves, said Jacquelyn Heard, a longtime aide and spokeswoman for the Katten Muchin Rosenman law firm where Daley is of counsel. "He may be here until mid-week, if not longer," Heard said.

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley was undergoing tests Saturday in the intensive-care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after falling ill on a business trip to Arizona, according to representatives of the former mayor. Daley, 71, felt ill Friday afternoon during a conference he was attending with members of the Katten Muchin Rosenman law firm, where Daley is of counsel, said Jacquelyn Heard, a longtime Daley aide who now works as a spokeswoman for the firm. He was still feeling ill and disoriented when he boarded the plane home, she said.

A 60-year-old man was taken to a hospital early this morning after accidentally plunging over a CTA platform and falling onto the tracks in a Loop subway, police said. The man had been looking for the train when he accidentally fell over the platform about 3 a.m. at 115 S. Dearborn St. near the Monroe Station along the Blue Line, police said. CTA personnel helped him off the tracks and he was taken by Chicago Fire Department ambulance to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with minor injuries, police said.

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Richard M. Daley, who was mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital on Saturday after falling ill the day before, the hospital said. Northwestern Memorial Hospital said that Daley, 71, became ill after returning from a business trip in Arizona and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "He is in Northwestern's ICU for monitoring and evaluation," the hospital said in a statement on Saturday. "Mayor Daley's family is with him and they are visiting between tests.

A 21-year-old man shot to death in an Englewood building was among at least five people shot in seven hours Wednesday on the South and Northwest sides, authorities said. Police were called to the scene in the 6900 block of South Racine Avenue following a report of a person shot about 1:30 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien. In the front hallway of an apartment building in that block, police found a 21-year-old man shot in the stomach, authorities said.

A South Side woman has been charged with reckless discharge of a firearm after her brother was shot in the eye Wednesday while the pair were arguing over whether her handgun would fire. Joeann Smith, 52, of the 1700 block of East 72nd Street, was charged with a felony count of reckless discharge of a weapon in connection with the shooting about 7 p.m. Wednesday at her home in the city's South Shore neighborhood, police said this morning. She was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail in Cook County Bond Court today.

A 56-year-old man was declared brain dead this morning after being shot by a relative following an argument Wednesday in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said. Willie Smith, 56, of the 500 block of North Desplaines Street, was declared brain-dead at 9 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The victim had been in an apartment in the 1700 block of East 72nd Street about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday when he got into an argument about a gun with a woman with whom he has a domestic relationship with, said Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said Friday.